Delete all the content between <strong></strong> in Yahoo Pipes feed

Question

I'm pulling a feed from GMA, don't ask why. I'm using yahoo pipes because I can filter out certain articles based on their title. Then I run the feed through feedenlarger.com so I can get the full text pretty easily.

The problem I'm having is that the feeds contain bold links in them that are disrupting the articles. Each one is surrounded by a <strong>....</strong>. I am trying to just delete any content that exists between the <strong></strong>, but I can't seem to get it right.

I have tried:
item.description replace <strong>*?</strong> with (and left blank) as well as item.description replace <strong>*?</strong> with (also left blank)

I know regex and html are not meant for one another, but if someone has a suggestion or direction, I'd appreciate it very much.

Thanks

Answer 1

I'm not familiar with what you are doing exactly, but I would first try just removing the <strong> tag to make the escape is needed. By that I mean see if <strong> or <strong> works to make sure you are on the right track.

I believe the source of the issue is that it appears you are trying to match many > rather than the actual contents between the tags. Try using .*? (or [^<]*? if you know there will be no other tags within the tags) instead.